I was mad. I had to interact with giant mantas. Now I just don't want to come up. Danielle

Roca was like diving in an aquarium, a school of fifteen Galapagos sharks, more white tip reef sharks than I can count, a moray eel lounge, a lobster that could feed a family of four, a couple of mantas and all in one dive. George. Siccuramente uno dei posti piu bello dal mondo che ho […]

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A school of 100 silky sharks can cruising down the wall at Roca Partida – wrapping with a cold beer in the hot tub. Socorro, Mexico. June 24, 2012

Roca Partida in June seems to take on a whole new life. Any time of the season Roca Partida is always one of our best dive spots and always our best site for big pelagics. At this time of the year however it comes alive like no other. Huge schools of sharks seem to be everywhere. A […]

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Young tiger shark took center stage at the Boiler at San Benedicto Island. Socorro, Mexico. June 19, 2012.

Well this morning finds our sleepy ship rising at a more leisurely pace as today is a non diving day while we make our transit from Socorro Island to the Sea of Cortez. We finished our last two days at San Benedicto with much more giant Manta fun at the boiler. Over the last two […]

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Speechless!!!! Tiger shark + spawning event and millions of larval stage crabs? Is that why the diving is so outstanding right now?? Socorro, Mexico. June 19th, 2012.

Day 1. The arrival to San Benedicto is always greeted with the comfort of seeing land, again! It never gets old for me as I approach our first anchorage on the southern side of the island. This puts us squarely in front of the volcano dome which rises rapidly from the sea. Its ash covered […]

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We have almost 30 years of experience diving Socorro Island between just 5 of the 10 crew onboard the Nautilus Explorer. Captain's blog. Socorro Island. November 12, 2010

We have just completed our first trip of the 2010/2011 Socorro season, in this my third year as Captain on the Nautilus Explorer. All of our favorite big animals were represented in the past 6 days, the Giant Mantas, bottlenose dolphins, hammerhead sharks, among others. Having a destination like the Socorro Islands is one of […]

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A sea otter having sex with harbor seals????

Location: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. We will be boarding our first Guadalupe Island great white shark trip of the season in just a couple of hours.   I am totally wired and can’t wait to find out what the diving is going to be like when the Nautilus Explorer arrives on station.  Unfortunately I will […]

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Submersible cage for diving with great white sharks

Location: Ensenada, Mexico Excitement is running really high among the crew as we make final preparations for boarding our first great white shark trip to Guadalupe Island tomorrow.  Everyone has been working flat-out to get the Nautilus Explorer turned around at the shipyard.   We yanked and changed out the carpet on the main deck, dorm […]

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